The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Proposed Rulemaking in the Matter of Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet May 15, 2014
On May 15, 2014, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its latest effort to impose net neutrality regulations on broadband providers. This report reviews the recent history of the FCC’s regulation of Internet service providers – including the two recent cases in which the courts struck down the FCC’s efforts to impose net neutrality rules – and analyzes the implications of the current Proposed Rules for free speech on the Internet. This report concludes that the FCC’s Proposed Rules threaten the free flow of information on the Internet and endanger freedom of expression and freedom of the media values. The legal analysis of the net neutrality rules was prepared for the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media by Dawn Carla Nunziato, Professor at The George Washington University Law School.
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